GNU bug report logs - #734
23.0.60; Interactively use a list argument to replace-string + missing documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:45:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org
Subject: bug#734: 23.0.60; Interactively use a list argument to replace-string + missing documentation
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:37:06 -0400

I learned from a post in gnu.emacs.help that the second argument to
replace-string can be a list of strings.  In this case the elements of
the list are used in cyclic order.  It appears that this feature can't 
be used when the function is used interactively.  I think this can be 
a very useful feature and should probably be accessible interactively. 

Also this behavior is not documented in the doc string or the info page 
of replace-string -- although it is documented in the info page for
perform-replace function.

Thanks,
Nikos
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